CIA officials will testify against Libby.
By on May 23rd, 2006 at 9:56 am
CIA officials will testify against Libby.
“Two top CIA officials will bolster prosecutors’ charge that Vice President Cheney’s chief aide lied to them, court papers show.” The New York Daily News reports: Prosecutors say Scooter Libby learned Valerie Plame’s identity “from, among others, agency officials who will be called to testify at his trial for perjury, false statements and obstruction of justice. Both CIA officials – including a top architect of the 2003 Iraq invasion – discussed Plame with Libby a month before columnist Robert Novak blew her cover in July 2003, prosecutors charge.”
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May 23rd, 2006 at 10:01 amOh, and I’ll bet that the anxiety makes Rove drop another 10 pounds this week…
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:03 amDo you think Libby would like a do-over?
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:06 amAfter his long life of being a very short, ready-to-please, brown noser, lap dog?
this is terrific news… everything that fitz is doing is making a stronger case… the net is wide and some very big fish are going to get caught…
http://takeitpersonally.blogspot.com/
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:07 amSounds like Fitz was saving these guys for the coup de grace. Happy Fitzorial Day.
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:08 amI’ve been wondering where the CIA witnesses were.
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:09 amHere’s an interesting tidbit about one of the CIA witnesses…
But Vince Cannistraro, a former CIA counterterrorism chief, said Grenier lost his job over his “concerns about aggressive interrogations [of terrorist detainees] at secret sites.”
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:16 amsince it is illegal to expose an undercover cia operative, why isn’t novak being charged with anything?
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:28 amNovak is the press. The first amendment guarantees his freedom.
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:30 amDoesn’t mean you have to like him.
Everything Novak knows he knows because of the White House. And knowing things and printing things is not a crime.
And now we have Gonzales, one of Bush’s lackies who want’s to imprison all the press and wipe out the 1st amendment. And let us not forget Pombo who want to sell off everything, parks, wilderness, bla, bla, bla,….Maybe when we all have nothing more to loose we can wake up all the right winged sleepers. Then we will be like the ravaged parts of the world, growing freedom fighters that no longer have anything else to loose…….Blessings
May 23rd, 2006 at 10:43 am“Scooter” better change his nickname to “Killer” or “Nine Fingers” or something……..
May 23rd, 2006 at 11:00 amsince it is illegal to expose an undercover cia operative, why isn’t novak being charged with anything?
Comment by ryan — May 23, 2006 @ 10:28 am
It’s illegal for a government employee to expose an undercover operative.
May 23rd, 2006 at 11:13 am# 2
We should drop some lbs.too.
May 23rd, 2006 at 11:15 am“since it is illegal to expose an undercover cia operative, why isn’t novak being charged with anything?” Plame was neither covert or “undercover” and had not been close to that for quite some time. You can bark up that tree all day long but it wont get any attention in the legal arena. I suspect that the testimony of the CIA officials will be anti-climatic and probably off camera, so all we will hear is rumors. Call it a sideshow because the “Perjury” charge is so weak.
May 23rd, 2006 at 11:26 am#14 – Plame/Wilson’s covert status has been settled by Fitz, RRS.
May 23rd, 2006 at 12:17 pm#14 you really have to be in denial to think Plame (or her front company) was not undercover. Very strange to defend such an “American hater” like Libby.
May 23rd, 2006 at 12:51 pmDenial is a river in Egypt and you guys are floating on it. If Valerie was undercover/covert/007 then WHY didn’t Fitz file charges based on that law? Answer: Because she was not in/on covert status while working a DESK at CIA HQ. the fact that she worked at CIA was NOT classifeid by any stretch of the law but she was in a CIVIL servant CLASSIFIED position. Not secret job, but a civil service JOB CLASSIFICATION, much like the janitor, the receptionists, or the gate guard. I lifted this fromthe American Thinker:
May 23rd, 2006 at 3:05 pm“The janitor, the gate guard, and her co-workers knew she was a CIA officer, and therefore she in all likelihood was not an “unknown†covert operative. Unknown operatives don’t generally drive through the front gate every day to go to HQ, and the person’s status is not common knowledge in the building. And most of all, covert operatives don’t normally attend Senate Democratic Policy strategy meetings with their husbands. Or, I guess they could, but wouldn’t that be domestic spying?”
We should drop some lbs.too.
Comment by also much smarter than my father — May 23, 2006 @ 11:15 am
“We” meaning you and your grossly obese guinea pigs? Sure – you and your rats do that. Just stop eating when you’re not hungry anymore. Amazing how well that works. Really. Try it Denny.
May 23rd, 2006 at 3:41 pm#17 – Got a link to back up that crap?
May 23rd, 2006 at 4:21 pmThis is unbelievable,but I just spilled my pork and beans all over the keyboard.
May 23rd, 2006 at 6:20 pmI’ve been told not to eat,drive and basically live behind this thing.
Hey dim-friggin’-wit RRS:
I sure am glad you idiots are on George Bush’s side.
May 23rd, 2006 at 7:03 pm